http://www.cctv.com/program/qqzxb/20080510/102287.shtml
这只长寿灯泡隶属于美国加州利佛摩尔市消防队，是功率仅为4瓦的碳丝灯泡，用来为那些24小时待命出勤的队员提供照明。日前，吉尼斯世界纪录确认，这只 107岁高龄的"寿星灯泡"是"全球最老的电灯泡"。至于这只寿星灯泡的"长寿秘诀"，许多人猜测说，由于它从不开关，所以灯丝寿命超长。现在，这只"寿 星灯泡"还拥有自己的官方网站，全球的"粉丝"们都可通过网络"瞻仰"这只传奇灯泡。
http://everything2.com/e2node/The%2520long-lasting%2520light%2520bulb%2520of%2520Livermore%252C%2520California
In a fire station in Livermore, California, a light bulb has burned since 1901-- almost continuously. Only on a couple of occasions has it been turned off, during moves. When they placed it in a socket at the new location, it lit up. Power failures have also temporarily dimmed the bulb.
No, really.
The bulb bears no marks, but historians believe that the Shelby Electric Company manufactured the 4-watt item. Dennis Bernal, owner of Livermore Power and Light, donated it to the city's joint fire/police station in 1901. It has served as a garage night light, first at at the fire department hose cart house in 1901, then at the new fire station in the 1930s, and again at a station opened in 1976.
In 1972, the Ripley's Believe it or Not! Museum researched the bulb and declared it authentic-- though they have a certain history for credulity. The program On the Road with Charles Kurault profiled the enigmatic bulb around the same time. The Guinness Book of World Records has also listed the bulb, though they state only that evidence supports the town's claim. Numerous newspapers, magazines, radio and tv shows have investigated the bulb. The skeptical Mikkelsons of the Snopes Urban Legend Site vouch for the bulb's authenticity.
The Livermore light likely served as the inspiration for Byron the Immortal Light Bulb from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
Livermore celebrates its bulb, and threw a centennial for it in 2001. They also established a bulb webcam, at the official website (See http://www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm). The bulb's incandescence can be viewed from around the world.
Livermore's bulb is not unique. A New York City hardware store had a 1912 light which continued to burn until at least the 1970s. A bulb at the Palace Theater in Fort Worth, Texas lasted 68 years. Another in the washroom of an Ipswich Electrical Shop appears to have lasted from 1930 to 2001, when it finally went the way of all flash.
Some people wonder why modern lights could not burn so long. Others expound theories conspiratorial and claim that such lights could easily be manufactured, but that the vast, all-powerful bulb-manufacturing interests prevent it from happening, lest they lose our repeat business. Steven Johnson of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, among others, says that, in fact, light manufacturers merely respond to consumer demand. They "can make it very dim to last for a very long period of time, or they can make it bright... and last for 750 or a thousand hours" (quoted in Knapp). The Livermore bulb has burned for more than one hundred years, but it has not burned brightly; it could really only be used as a night light.
Provided the fire-fighters of Livermore's Station #6 are not otherwise occupied, the public may visit the bulb Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm.
主页:
http://www.centennialbulb.org/
实时图片:
http://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm
说是10更新一次，但到现在还是08年8月21日17点29分39秒的。
难道灯坏了？还是摄像机坏了？
这只长寿灯泡隶属于美国加州利佛摩尔市消防队，是功率仅为4瓦的碳丝灯泡，用来为那些24小时待命出勤的队员提供照明。日前，吉尼斯世界纪录确认，这只 107岁高龄的"寿星灯泡"是"全球最老的电灯泡"。至于这只寿星灯泡的"长寿秘诀"，许多人猜测说，由于它从不开关，所以灯丝寿命超长。现在，这只"寿 星灯泡"还拥有自己的官方网站，全球的"粉丝"们都可通过网络"瞻仰"这只传奇灯泡。
http://everything2.com/e2node/The%2520long-lasting%2520light%2520bulb%2520of%2520Livermore%252C%2520California
In a fire station in Livermore, California, a light bulb has burned since 1901-- almost continuously. Only on a couple of occasions has it been turned off, during moves. When they placed it in a socket at the new location, it lit up. Power failures have also temporarily dimmed the bulb.
No, really.
The bulb bears no marks, but historians believe that the Shelby Electric Company manufactured the 4-watt item. Dennis Bernal, owner of Livermore Power and Light, donated it to the city's joint fire/police station in 1901. It has served as a garage night light, first at at the fire department hose cart house in 1901, then at the new fire station in the 1930s, and again at a station opened in 1976.
In 1972, the Ripley's Believe it or Not! Museum researched the bulb and declared it authentic-- though they have a certain history for credulity. The program On the Road with Charles Kurault profiled the enigmatic bulb around the same time. The Guinness Book of World Records has also listed the bulb, though they state only that evidence supports the town's claim. Numerous newspapers, magazines, radio and tv shows have investigated the bulb. The skeptical Mikkelsons of the Snopes Urban Legend Site vouch for the bulb's authenticity.
The Livermore light likely served as the inspiration for Byron the Immortal Light Bulb from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
Livermore celebrates its bulb, and threw a centennial for it in 2001. They also established a bulb webcam, at the official website (See http://www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm). The bulb's incandescence can be viewed from around the world.
Livermore's bulb is not unique. A New York City hardware store had a 1912 light which continued to burn until at least the 1970s. A bulb at the Palace Theater in Fort Worth, Texas lasted 68 years. Another in the washroom of an Ipswich Electrical Shop appears to have lasted from 1930 to 2001, when it finally went the way of all flash.
Some people wonder why modern lights could not burn so long. Others expound theories conspiratorial and claim that such lights could easily be manufactured, but that the vast, all-powerful bulb-manufacturing interests prevent it from happening, lest they lose our repeat business. Steven Johnson of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, among others, says that, in fact, light manufacturers merely respond to consumer demand. They "can make it very dim to last for a very long period of time, or they can make it bright... and last for 750 or a thousand hours" (quoted in Knapp). The Livermore bulb has burned for more than one hundred years, but it has not burned brightly; it could really only be used as a night light.
Provided the fire-fighters of Livermore's Station #6 are not otherwise occupied, the public may visit the bulb Monday through Friday from 8 am to 5 pm.
主页:
http://www.centennialbulb.org/
实时图片:
http://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm
说是10更新一次，但到现在还是08年8月21日17点29分39秒的。
难道灯坏了？还是摄像机坏了？
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